Haven't laughed so hard in ages. Actually had to piss sitting down in order not to splash my kidney champagne all over the bathroom, I was laughing so hard.
How about lightening up a bit? It might be pure, erm, bollocks, it might not be. The story is fun to read, but not nearly as much fun as looking for the damn spot, whether it exists or not.
Pint, because you deserve one for providing us with the other side of the coin, as it were.
I have a few XP virtual machines I to run really poorly written legacy software I earn the majority of my living with, and at the end of the day, I just shut down the virtual machine and enjoy the declining loveliness that is OS X.
Re: Re : "Would it ... fit on the head of a shark?"
Yes, a fairly sizeable one, though I imagine it would be thoroughly cooked as well. I think my non-sexual fantasies will start shifting towards "sharks with friggin <jolly destructive technology with almost no waste heat>". Alas.
No difference between helium nuclei and alpha particles, other than the energy they have, but alpha radiation is stopped by a bit of air, and as the helium nucleus slows down, it acquires two electrons from a reputable donor, turning it into delicious He, which is a good thing, because we're running awfully short of the stuff.
As to the atoms, well, the enormously high temperature makes the electrons go "I'm outta here!", leaving just the nuclei. In case of H, this is just a single proton, and in 11B, there are 5 protons and a 6 neutrons. Combine the two, as the article you linked to explains, and you end up with a single nucleus of 6 protons and 6 neutrons. These, however, are unstable for reasons far beyond my comprehension (and that of most mere mortals, top boffins excluded), and split into 3 He nuclei with 2 protons and 2 neutrons each + a rather decent amount of energy. As mentioned above, the alpha particles thus created are then slowed down and turn into lovely helium, making this almost too good to be true, if they ever manage to scale it up.
Actually, the civilised world uses metric, full stop. It's just you lot that still do road signs in non-metric units, and the less said about the the uncouth heathens on the other side of the pond, the better.
Yes, some men would be offended. And I'd tell them to shut up, because they could take it. Or, if they couldn't, they'd beat me up, which is quite frankly preferrable to reading pseudofeminist whining about non-issues.
I tend to prefer my naked flesh to be of the female variety, but you know, whatever rocks your boat. And I'm quite sure there are a few gay commentards who don't enjoy the sexuality portrayed in this video, as well.
How about you calm down, maybe watch a few ads you enjoy, and try to not be all stoplikingwhatidontlike.jpg?
In a way, yes, it's quite silly. On the other hand, it's tremendeously bad publicity for Panda. I mean, would you really hire a physical security company if they got their lobby vandalised every time they apprehended a suspect?
Actually, cure for cancer isn't a real thing. Cancers are very different from one another, and it's impossible to find a silver bullet that will kill them all.*
I'd say we've made some damn good progress on this front, though.
While I'm very happy with the your astroturfing services, I would suggest that instead of posting as AC, you post a few anti-Apple/Android rants first, thus building up a certain degree of credibility, and only then try to discount Wikileaks as a criminal enterprise using your nickname.
If I ever evaluate potential incubators for the next generation of my genes based on their computer preferences rather than their hip and tit size, someone castrate me, please.
I remember hearing about this bloke on German news about 10 years ago. He was described as a top hacker, and while I couldn't program a VCR, just listening to an interview with him made me realise he knows less about programming than I do, but is apparently a marketing genius.
Also seemed like an annoying twat, which I suppose is his lifelong occupation.
Also, even though Panaleicas are just Panasonics with Leica branding, they're infused with the special Leica magic. Apparently, the so called magic bit is set in their firmware, making any pictures they take utterly glorious.
Please learn how to write a coherent marketing blurb.
Yours sincerely,
Col. A W Puppy, ret., Mrs.
tl;dr version:
WTFamIreading.jpg
Also, Citrix, from the end user's perspective, is just so many shades of fuggin awful I turned down quite a few well-paid projects just to be able to avoid it.
That would, of course, be in stark contrast to the country that is usually run by beardless religious lunatics that already have a couple thousand H-bombs and are willing to invade a nation at the slightest pretext?
I'm not skint, exactly, although buying an iPhone is still not a trivial expense for me, and I was seriously tempted by the Galaxy (can't remember the exact model) when my contract on the iPhone 3G was up. But after hearing a mate who's a phone reviewer (and a complete Droid fanboi) going on about how this ROM fixes this and that ROM improves that and how you need a separate app for playing audiobooks, well, I lost the enthusiasm, bit the bullet and bought the iPhone 4. And you know what? It's not cheap, it doesn't have the biggest screen, but it really does just work (TM).
Am I too daft to fiddle about with a phone with superior specs in order to make it work perfectly? Perhaps. I prefer to think I just don't have the time.
x CO2 + H2O ---(sunlight + enzymes)--> pretty much any hydrocarbon you want with the general formula of CxHyOz, where z can be zero, but the other two are decidedly nonzero.
Burning the same hydrocarbon:
CxHyOz +O2---(FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!)--> x CO2 + y/2 H2O (+ possibly some CO and even some C if there isn't enough oxygen available)
Amount of carbon going in = amount of carbon going out. Said carbon usually takes the form of CO2 on both ends.
I'll refrain from asking how your degree in Media Studies is working out in today's job market.
Pharma uses relatively small molecules, where changing a single atom will *usually* cause the compound to have completely different results. The proteins that make up the mechanism with which algae turn sunlight+CO2 into oil, however, are pretty huge, and even if Venter, who is by all accounts very much an ultracapitalst, manages to patent the genome that encodes these proteins, there's nothing, absolutely nothing, stopping anyone from producing an open-source (oh god, I can't believe I'm arguing for open source) protein that is very similar, but different enough not to be covered by the original patent, yet still retains the original functionality.
Which is exactly what is going to happen when BRIC countries won't want to pay Mr. Ventner's licensing fees.
Outside of El Reg fora and their population of Linux enthusiasts (admittedly, I don't visit other IT related fora much), I have yet to hear anyone say anything AT ALL about Linux on phones. Just deal with it, Linux just isn't what *consumers* want, hell, even Android is seen by some as too techy.
Remember OpenMoko? Every Linux fanboi was so busy ejaculating in their pants and posting on every bloody forum they could get their hairy palms on about how great this will be, they forgot to buy the damn thing. And surprise surprise, it tanked.
A vocal minority does not a commercial success make, and Nokia seem to have finally realised this.
(Another flashback: Nokia N95 vs iPhone - oh, the geekdom was rolling on the floor with derisory laughter when the iPhone's spec sheet, about the length of my private member, was compared to the Nokia spec sheet, which was the length of a porn star's trouser Saturn V. Which one sold better, I wonder?)
Could also be a unit of guilty pleasure. I often find myself imagining doing unprintable things to Ms. K, but I always feel guilty afterwards because, well, she's just icky, isn't she?
If there ever was a game I was addicted to, it was this. I played it for about 20 hours nonstop, not even going to the loo. It might have been responsible for me almost failing the first year at the uni.
"Does this refer to the foreign government, or its people. There is a difference."
Actually, there isn't. If the vast majority of the population were utterly dissatisfied with their government, there would have been a revolution already. You know, like the one they had in 1979.
Crossed which line, exactly? Doing stuff that displeases the almighty Uncle Sam? Running their country the way they see fit, however f-ed up it might be? Joining the nuclear club without Merkin blessing?
And then you wonder why most of the world considers Americans to be violent buffoons.
(NB: I know quite a few Americans who are anything but violent buffoons, but then again, they seem to be not quite as obnoxiously loud as the Murrikah-f*k-yeah eejits.)
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Oh my
Haven't laughed so hard in ages. Actually had to piss sitting down in order not to splash my kidney champagne all over the bathroom, I was laughing so hard.
Re: Journal of Sexual Medicine?
How about lightening up a bit? It might be pure, erm, bollocks, it might not be. The story is fun to read, but not nearly as much fun as looking for the damn spot, whether it exists or not.
Pint, because you deserve one for providing us with the other side of the coin, as it were.
Sounds likely.
About as likely as me schtooping Monica Bellucci.
I love XP
I have a few XP virtual machines I to run really poorly written legacy software I earn the majority of my living with, and at the end of the day, I just shut down the virtual machine and enjoy the declining loveliness that is OS X.
Re: Re : "Would it ... fit on the head of a shark?"
Yes, a fairly sizeable one, though I imagine it would be thoroughly cooked as well. I think my non-sexual fantasies will start shifting towards "sharks with friggin <jolly destructive technology with almost no waste heat>". Alas.
Re: No radioactivity?
No difference between helium nuclei and alpha particles, other than the energy they have, but alpha radiation is stopped by a bit of air, and as the helium nucleus slows down, it acquires two electrons from a reputable donor, turning it into delicious He, which is a good thing, because we're running awfully short of the stuff.
As to the atoms, well, the enormously high temperature makes the electrons go "I'm outta here!", leaving just the nuclei. In case of H, this is just a single proton, and in 11B, there are 5 protons and a 6 neutrons. Combine the two, as the article you linked to explains, and you end up with a single nucleus of 6 protons and 6 neutrons. These, however, are unstable for reasons far beyond my comprehension (and that of most mere mortals, top boffins excluded), and split into 3 He nuclei with 2 protons and 2 neutrons each + a rather decent amount of energy. As mentioned above, the alpha particles thus created are then slowed down and turn into lovely helium, making this almost too good to be true, if they ever manage to scale it up.
Re: Range
Actually, the civilised world uses metric, full stop. It's just you lot that still do road signs in non-metric units, and the less said about the the uncouth heathens on the other side of the pond, the better.
Re: much bigger than spaceflight or cloaking stuff, or even cooling chips..
Mr Entropy would like to have a quiet word with you.
Re: So for all you guys out there...
Yes, some men would be offended. And I'd tell them to shut up, because they could take it. Or, if they couldn't, they'd beat me up, which is quite frankly preferrable to reading pseudofeminist whining about non-issues.
Re: How to mark International Womens Day
"Apparently, not distinguishing between fact and fiction is OK, as long as you can complain about it."
Fix'd that for you.
Re: So for all you guys out there...
Some of us would, yes.
I tend to prefer my naked flesh to be of the female variety, but you know, whatever rocks your boat. And I'm quite sure there are a few gay commentards who don't enjoy the sexuality portrayed in this video, as well.
How about you calm down, maybe watch a few ads you enjoy, and try to not be all stoplikingwhatidontlike.jpg?
Coat, for obvious reasons.
Re: Getting even!
In a way, yes, it's quite silly. On the other hand, it's tremendeously bad publicity for Panda. I mean, would you really hire a physical security company if they got their lobby vandalised every time they apprehended a suspect?
Re: global law
See also: stoplikingwhatidontlike.jpg
Re: Re: Fusion is one exception
Actually, cure for cancer isn't a real thing. Cancers are very different from one another, and it's impossible to find a silver bullet that will kill them all.*
I'd say we've made some damn good progress on this front, though.
* I really hope I'm wrong about this.
Suggestion for improvement
Dear sir,
While I'm very happy with the your astroturfing services, I would suggest that instead of posting as AC, you post a few anti-Apple/Android rants first, thus building up a certain degree of credibility, and only then try to discount Wikileaks as a criminal enterprise using your nickname.
Yours sincerely,
Col. Awful Puppy, Ret.
Department of Shills and Astroturfers
Stratfor
Re: What rubbish
I do hope you were going for extreme sarcasm.
(Hint: Read the man's bio at the end of the article.)
A very educational game, oddly enough
I'd have never learned English if it weren't for the promise of monochrome pixelated boobs in this game.
Wrong, little grasshopper
See AC, 8:14 GMT.
I loved that little bastard
Great first line defense for slow decks, I always thought.
Fortunately, I got a life later on.
Ahem
"... nobody's that interested in building mighty 'thopter-craft to replace choppers or jets."
Muad'Dib would like a word with you.
Oh God
If I ever evaluate potential incubators for the next generation of my genes based on their computer preferences rather than their hip and tit size, someone castrate me, please.
Sincerely,
a complete Apple fanboi
Could I just point out ...
That the word you're looking for is "discreet" rather than "discrete"?
Carry on.
Because it's far more dramatic. And in this case, drama is good.
Thank you for not making me act on my own pedantic urges. I strongly agree with you, good sir.
A real-life, Texan version of
Red Foreman.
My imaginary huge Stetson is off to this gent.
And ...
... we have the Pentax girl.
(No Paris icon, because she seems much less prone to venereal diseases than the esteemed Ms Hilton.)
I remember hearing about this bloke on German news about 10 years ago. He was described as a top hacker, and while I couldn't program a VCR, just listening to an interview with him made me realise he knows less about programming than I do, but is apparently a marketing genius.
Also seemed like an annoying twat, which I suppose is his lifelong occupation.
Oh god, I want this. Not usually a car person, but I have a thing for Hondas.
No "bitch" in title?
El Reg, I am disappoint.
Alas ...
The X1 is a true Leica, not a Panaleica.
Also, even though Panaleicas are just Panasonics with Leica branding, they're infused with the special Leica magic. Apparently, the so called magic bit is set in their firmware, making any pictures they take utterly glorious.
Surely, this must be trolling
Or it's a caricature of the "social media" types. Or a modern art performance piece. Or something.
Pass the eye bleach, please.
Dear sir,
Please learn how to write a coherent marketing blurb.
Yours sincerely,
Col. A W Puppy, ret., Mrs.
tl;dr version:
WTFamIreading.jpg
Also, Citrix, from the end user's perspective, is just so many shades of fuggin awful I turned down quite a few well-paid projects just to be able to avoid it.
Because it's played mostly by people who have normal lives, rather than by basement dwellers?
That would, of course, be in stark contrast to the country that is usually run by beardless religious lunatics that already have a couple thousand H-bombs and are willing to invade a nation at the slightest pretext?
@BoldMan
Not really, I'm just a font whore.
Oh God, the horror
Couldn't he have used a slightly less awful font?
Sure, he should be applauded for a job well done, but the font, oh my giddy aunt, the font.
I'm not skint, exactly, although buying an iPhone is still not a trivial expense for me, and I was seriously tempted by the Galaxy (can't remember the exact model) when my contract on the iPhone 3G was up. But after hearing a mate who's a phone reviewer (and a complete Droid fanboi) going on about how this ROM fixes this and that ROM improves that and how you need a separate app for playing audiobooks, well, I lost the enthusiasm, bit the bullet and bought the iPhone 4. And you know what? It's not cheap, it doesn't have the biggest screen, but it really does just work (TM).
Am I too daft to fiddle about with a phone with superior specs in order to make it work perfectly? Perhaps. I prefer to think I just don't have the time.
If the company keeps on going like that
a) Mr. Musk deserves every yummy actress he can stick his Falcon in and, far more importantly,
b) We may actually one day become a spacefaring civilization.
Oh dear.
x CO2 + H2O ---(sunlight + enzymes)--> pretty much any hydrocarbon you want with the general formula of CxHyOz, where z can be zero, but the other two are decidedly nonzero.
Burning the same hydrocarbon:
CxHyOz +O2---(FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!)--> x CO2 + y/2 H2O (+ possibly some CO and even some C if there isn't enough oxygen available)
Amount of carbon going in = amount of carbon going out. Said carbon usually takes the form of CO2 on both ends.
I'll refrain from asking how your degree in Media Studies is working out in today's job market.
How long
before the environmentalists, undeterred by logic or science, start preaching that burning algae oil produces CO2 and is therefore bad?
The beauty of big molecules
Pharma uses relatively small molecules, where changing a single atom will *usually* cause the compound to have completely different results. The proteins that make up the mechanism with which algae turn sunlight+CO2 into oil, however, are pretty huge, and even if Venter, who is by all accounts very much an ultracapitalst, manages to patent the genome that encodes these proteins, there's nothing, absolutely nothing, stopping anyone from producing an open-source (oh god, I can't believe I'm arguing for open source) protein that is very similar, but different enough not to be covered by the original patent, yet still retains the original functionality.
Which is exactly what is going to happen when BRIC countries won't want to pay Mr. Ventner's licensing fees.
Well, making a right tit out of myself is something I'm apparently very good at. Thanks for the correction.
By whom?
Outside of El Reg fora and their population of Linux enthusiasts (admittedly, I don't visit other IT related fora much), I have yet to hear anyone say anything AT ALL about Linux on phones. Just deal with it, Linux just isn't what *consumers* want, hell, even Android is seen by some as too techy.
Remember OpenMoko? Every Linux fanboi was so busy ejaculating in their pants and posting on every bloody forum they could get their hairy palms on about how great this will be, they forgot to buy the damn thing. And surprise surprise, it tanked.
A vocal minority does not a commercial success make, and Nokia seem to have finally realised this.
(Another flashback: Nokia N95 vs iPhone - oh, the geekdom was rolling on the floor with derisory laughter when the iPhone's spec sheet, about the length of my private member, was compared to the Nokia spec sheet, which was the length of a porn star's trouser Saturn V. Which one sold better, I wonder?)
Go Russia!
(No real content to this comment, really, just my Slavic blood acting up.)
Say what you will
But that is one seriously well-designed probe. Kudos to the Yanks, because back in the day, they really were fantastic.
Genius.
My hat is off, good sir.
+1000 internets to you.
One Kardashian ...
Could also be a unit of guilty pleasure. I often find myself imagining doing unprintable things to Ms. K, but I always feel guilty afterwards because, well, she's just icky, isn't she?
Oh dear
If there ever was a game I was addicted to, it was this. I played it for about 20 hours nonstop, not even going to the loo. It might have been responsible for me almost failing the first year at the uni.
Ahh, memories.
"Does this refer to the foreign government, or its people. There is a difference."
Actually, there isn't. If the vast majority of the population were utterly dissatisfied with their government, there would have been a revolution already. You know, like the one they had in 1979.
@tony72
Crossed which line, exactly? Doing stuff that displeases the almighty Uncle Sam? Running their country the way they see fit, however f-ed up it might be? Joining the nuclear club without Merkin blessing?
And then you wonder why most of the world considers Americans to be violent buffoons.
(NB: I know quite a few Americans who are anything but violent buffoons, but then again, they seem to be not quite as obnoxiously loud as the Murrikah-f*k-yeah eejits.)
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